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Records of the Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit (Sygn.113)

Document | Accession Number: 1992.A.0050 | RG Number: RG-15.010M

Contains information about German annexation of Polish land through the years; German colonization in Poland and Eastern Europe;"race science;" population statistics for Kraków, Poland, through the years; birth statistics for several Polish towns and villages; activities of Einsatzgruppen; statistics for Catholic churches in the Kraków area; and the history of the Polish nobility from ca. 1300 to ca. 1600.

Source of acquisition is the Instytut Pamięci Narodowej-Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (Institute of National Remembrance-Commission for the Prosecution of Crimes against the Polish Nation). Institut für Deutsche Ostarbeit created the records from ca. 1942 to ca. 1944; Sygn. 113. The United States Holocaust Research Institute Archives received filmed collection in 1991.

Restrictions on use. Publication or copying of documents for a third party requires written permission from Instytut Pamięci Narodowej – Komisja Ścigania Zbrodni przeciwko Narodowi Polskiemu (IPN) in Warsaw, Poland.

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